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IN  LIGHTER  VEIN 

Franklin 

Fr4nUin'twit, 

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Laughter  is  the  daylight  of 
the  souly  a  smile  is  its  twilight. 

/^N  ONE  occasion  long  after  Washing- 
V^  ton*s  name  had  become  familiar  to 
all  Europe,  Benjamin  Franklin  dined 
with  the  English  and  French  ambassa- 
dors, when  iseveral  famous  toasts  were 
drunk.    The  British  ambassador  pro- 
posed:   "England — the    sun     whose 
brightest  beams  enlighten  and  frudtify 
the  remotest  corners  of  the  earth!" 
Not  to  be  outdone,  the  French  ambas- 
sador gave  as  his  toast:  "France — the 
moon  whose  mild,  steady  and  cheering 
rays  are  the  delight  of  alj  nations,  con- 
soling them  in  darkness  and   making 
their  dreariness  beautiful ! "  .Each  won- 
dered what  Franklin  could  propose,  but 
he  was  ready  for  the  occasion,  and  gave : 
"  George  Washington — the  Joshua  who 
commanded  the  sun  and  moon  to  stand 
still,  and  they  obeyed  himl** 

"Dret  Harte  is  80  frequently  com- 
JD  plimented  in  England  as  the  author 
of  Little  Breeches  that  he  is  almost 
sorry  that  Secretary  John  Hay  ever  wrote 
it.    A  gushing  lady,  who  prided  herself 

A  Page  of  Unique  Typography  designed  by  J.  H.  Nash 


IN  LIGHTER  VEIN 


E4 


A  Colledlion  of  Keen  Anecdotes 
and  Rare  Reminiscences  of  Well- 
Known  People 
by  John  De  Morgan 

fFit  is  the  lightning  of  the  mind — 

the  cayenne  of  conversation  —  and  the 

salt  of  life. 

When  John  De  Morgan  struck  his 

lead  In  Lighter  Vein,  he  struck  a 

mighty  good  prosped. 

Mr.  De  Morgan  loves  to  wander 

among  the  forgotten  trails  of  history, 

literature  and  social  life.    Biographies 

and  letters  of  famous  men  and  women, 

of  eccentric  geniuses,  raconteurs   and 

noted   wits,  have    been    his    favorite 

fields.    While  delving  about  he  has 

brought  to  light  a  rich  and  varied  col- 

ledion  of — not  time-worn  jests — but 

rather  the  sparkling  things  that  ha:^e 

somehow   escaped  us  hitherto:    keen 

witticisms,  bright  repartees,  snappy  bon  mots,  brilliant  anecdotes,  and 

flashes  of  humor.    One  page  twinkles  with  the  epigrams  of  a  well-known 

prime  minister,  another  scintillates  with  the 
wit  of  a  celebrated  Irish  comedian,  on  an- 
other Mark  Twain  "compiles  a  pun"  and 
pokes  fun  at  a  Scotch  lawyer.  Elsewhere, 
two  keen  stories  are  told  at  the  expense  of 
Colonel  Roosevelt,  Dickens  contributes  a 
humorous  letter  to  an  eccentric  clockmaker, 
and  Artemus  Ward,  upon  his  death  bed,  per- 
petrates his  last  great  jest.  From  cover  to 
cover  the  book  is  packed  with  unique  per- 
sonalities and  delightful  reminiscences. 

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A  BALL  OF  YARN 


Its  Unwinding  by  Robert  Rudd  Whiting 


This  Ball  of  Yarn  is  composed  of  four 
skeins  of  three  yarns  each,  and  each  a  hummer. 
These  yarns  are  so  strung  together  and  so  in- 
geniously interwoven  with  snappy  dialogue 
that  once  the  reader  catches  hold  either  of  the 
thread  of  discourse  or  of  the  yarn  itself,  he  is 
carried  on,  willy-nilly,  to  the  ultimate  end, 
hopelessly  enmeshed  and  helpless  with  sup- 
pressed laughter. 

Others  have  yarned  before:  Ananias,  Sap- 
phira,  Munchausen,  Mark  Twain  and  a  host 
of  others  —  some  entertainingly,  others  pains- 
takingly, still  others  exasperatingly.  But  when 
Whiting  knits  his  brow,  thoughtfully  plucks  at 


An  Initial  from 

<*The  Yarn  of  the  Two-Tailed 

Pointer" 


a  stray  raveling  from  up  his  sleeve  and 
proceeds  to  reel  off  a  skein  or  two,  one 
feels  a  certain  awe  —  the  kind  of  feeling 
that  gets  into  your  system  when  you 
stand  in  the  presence  of  an  Egyptian 
pyramid,  a  Persian  monolith,  a  Cali- 
fornia giant  sequoia.  This  is  no  com- 
mon liar.  Here  is  no  cheap  charlatan. 
This  is  he  —  it  must  be  he  —  the  lineal 
descendant  of  the  man  who  invented 
the  Jonah  story ! 

The  Yarn  of  the  Breathbound  Vil- 
lage, The  Yarn  of  the  Brawny  Bats- 
man, The  Yarn  of  the  Sinner  Stung, 
are  not  yarns  to  make  you  yawn  but 
yarns  to  make  you  yearn  for  more. 

When  you  are  blue  with  care,  red 
with  anger,  green  with  envy,  or  purple 
with  rage,  you  will  be  sure  to  find  some 
yarn  of  a  cheering  and  lively  color  here. 

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HOW  TO  TELL  THE  BIRDS 
FROM  THE  FLOWERS 

A  Manual  of  Flornithology  for  Beginners  by  Robert  W.  Wood 


One  of  the  many  annoying  homologies  graphically  sketched  by  Professor  Wood 

Professor  Wood  of  Johns  Hopkins  University,  author  of  "Flu- 
orescence and  Magnetic  Rotation  Spedra  of  Sodium  Vapor  and  Their 
Analysis,"  might  claim  close  affinity  to  Lewis  Carroll,  the  profound 
mathematician  and  creator  of  the  inimitable  Alice  in  Wonderland  droller- 
ies. Nature  students  who  have  hitherto  been  unable  to  differentiate 
between  such  homologous  species  as  the  Crow  and  the  Crocus,  the  Par- 
rot and  the  Carrot,  the  Cow-bird  and  the  Cowslip,  will  hail  this  little 
volume  with  shouts  of  joy.  Though,  "  Very  few  can  tell  the  Toucan 
from  the  Pecan  —  here's  a  new  plan!''  While  the  author's  high  stand- 
ing in  the  scientific  world  places  him  beyond  such  attacks  as  have  been 
direded  against  other  nature  writers,  his  drawings,  though  clever,  are 
subjed:  to  criticism.  Sometimes  we  even  have  the  uncomfortable  feeling 
that  he  is  poking  fun  at  us. 

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BETEL  NUTS 

WHAT  "THEY  SAY''  IN  HINDUSTAN 

Interpreted  and  Rhymed  in  English  by  Arthur  Guiterman 

Heres  Frolic  Truth  in  Oriental  guise ; 
A  verse  may  find  him  who  a  sermon  flies, 

A  meaty  little  book — full  of  Betel  Nuts 
cracked  and  hulled,  ready  for  chewing,  and, 
if  you  will,  even  digesting. 

These  "nuts"  are  piquant  and  pungent 
proverbs  of  the  Orient.  More  than  mere 
proverbs  —  they  are  really  shrewd  conden- 
sations of  stories  illustrative  of  life  in  India. 
As  the  Betel  Nut — the  chewing-gum  of 
the  Orient — spices  the  breath  and  reddens 
the  lips  of  the  native,  so  do  these  folk- 
words  and  jest-rhymes,  leaping  from  mouth 
to  mouth  in  the  gossip  of  the  bazaars,  give 
spice  and  color  to  the  native  speech.  They 
are  naturally  far  more  lively  than  the  prov- 
erbs of  the  West,  for  they  are  of  the  living  speech  of  the  people ;  the 
Hindu  is  gifted  with  a  free  and  pidhiresque  fancy  and  his  tongue  is  a 
scabbardless  sword ;  and  yet,  different  as  they  are,  they  show  that  the 
"unfathomable  Oriental  mind'*  grasps  the 
fads  of  life  in  much  the  same  way  as  the 
American  or  European  intelledl. 

This  colledion  consists  of  typical  sayings, — 
wise,  witty,  sarcastic,  passionate  and  senti- 
mental,—  from  every  quarter  of  the  great 
Empire  of  Hindustan,  rhymed  in  English 
couplets  and  quatrains  with  skill  that  has 
preserved  the  full  spiciness  of  the  originals. 

Forbear  to  kill  him  for  the  sake 

Of  ail  the  Widows  thou  wouldst  make  ! 

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THE  QUITE  NEW 

CYNIC'S  CALENDAR /oripog 

by 

Ethel  Watts-Mumford  Grant 

Oliver  Herford 

and  Addison  Mizner 

With  which  is  incorporated  a  Lexi- 
con of  Legal  Phrases  designed  to 
enlighten  the  uninitiated,  by  Ethel 
Watts-Mumford  Grant. 

The  Cynic's  Calendar  for  1908 
awaits  your  perusal. 

Who  would  not  be  a  Cynic,  if  the 
term  applies  to  the  genial,  wise  and 
whimsical  outlook  on  life  that  this 
little  book  expresses  in  such  trench- 
ant form  ?  Every  epigram  is  a  bit  of 
bright   silver,   clean    cut    and   fresh 

coined 
fori  908 


use. 


"Wade  and  found  wanting" 

From  the  Cynic's  Calendar  roii  1908 

C» fy  right  ^IQOJ 


If*s  darkest  before  pawn. 


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vised Wisdom.  This  year's  edition  brings 
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represents  might  be  difficult  to  estimate, 
but  doubtless  the  book  has  amply  fulfilled 
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for  the  blues.  Its  appearance  alone  is 
enough  to  drive  dull  care  away. 

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From  the  Cynic's  Calendar  for  1908 

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THE  AUTO  GUEST  BOOK 

Containing  the  Mobile  Maxims  of  Punbad  the  Railer 

Ethel  Watts-Mumford  Gjiant  and 

Richard  Butler  Glaenzer 

Responsible 


**  So  near  and  yet  —  Chauffeur  ! 


As  a  fun-maker  The  Auto  Guest 
Book  of  Mobile  Maxims  rivals  the 
"  Cynic's  Calendar "  in  spice  and 
spontaneous  gaiety.  While  conceived 
in  the  form  of  a  log  book  for  motor- 
ists, it  will  serve  equally  well  as  enter- 
tainer of  the  guest  who  waits  while 
the  machine  is  being  fixed.  It  should 
be  in  the  emergency  kit  of  every  tour- 
ing-car. 

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gestive of  how  one  may  look  after  a  spill  from  a  red  devil,  but  it  is  de- 
cidedly attradive.     Every  genuine  lover  of  the  devil,  the  red  devil,  we 

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day  when  he  or  she  ac- 
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bar  profenity 


A  CENTURY 
OF  MISQUOTATIONS 

Disarranged  by  Mary  B.  Dimond 

A  Century  of  Misquotations,  if  truth  must  be  told,  is  a  tri- 
umph of  audacity  and  cleverness,  the  author  further  being  aided  by  a 
unique  sense  of  humor.  The  scheme  of  the  book  is  deliciously  simple. 
One  hundred  familiar  quotations  are  united  in  unholy  wedlock  with 
as  many  others. 

O  womariy  in  our  hours  of  ease^ 
Uncertain^  coy,  and  hard  to  please. 
But  seen  too  oft,  familiar  with  her  face. 
We  first  endure,  then  pity,  then  embrace. 

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THE  MATRIMONIAL  PRIMER 

By  V.  B.  Ames.    With  a  Picftorial  Matrimonial 
Mathematics  by  Gordon  Ross 

Don^t  give  your  husband  a  backcomb  for  a 
birthday  present. 

Here  is  an  ideal  gift  for  the  married  friend 
or  the  friend  about  to  take  the  fatal  plunge. 

Arranged  somewhat  as  a  primer  with  many 
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verse  and  epigrammatic  prose,  with  an  occa- 
sional pinch  of  good  common  sense,  salted  in, 
as  for  instance :  Absence  may  make  the  heart 
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THE  LOVE  SONNETS  OF  A 
HOODLUM 


A  Sonnet  Cycle  Already  Become  Classic 

By  Wallace  Irwin 
With  an  Introdudtion  by  Gelett  Burgess 

The  Love  Sonnets  of  a  Hoodlum  is  no- 
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for,  having  had  a  wider  circulation  than  the 
work  of  any  contemporary  writer  of  verse, 
however  ambitious. 

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= 

1                       II 

==[ 

T             H             1? 
LOVE  SONNETS 
OF  A  HOODLUM 

= 

Bj  WALLACE  IRWIN 

WITH  AN  INTRODUCTION 
Bj  OELETT    BUROBSS 

fAtn,  ELDER  AND  COMPANY 
«AN  rtANCIICO  AK»  KIW  VOKS 

= 

1                       I. 

A  Chaste  Title  Page 


THE  RUBAIYAT  OF  OMAR 
KHAYYAM,  JUNIOR 

A   Daring  Poem 

Much  More  Than  a  Parody 

By  Wallace  Irwin 

With  a  Scholarly  Introdudion 
and  Remarkable  Illustrations  by 
Gelett  Burgess. 

Couched  in  the  most  exalted  lan- 
guage. Mad  with  a  surprising  de- 
gree of  sanity.  A  good  part  of  the 
rubaiyat  shows  what  a  healthful 
form  of  wisdom  nonsense  may  be- 
come. 

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Quotable  rubai  from  Irwin's  Omak  Junior 


Note — Thi  Lovi  Sonnets  or  a  Car  Conductor, 
the  same  author,  now  being  published  as  a  serial, 
be  brought  out  in  book  form  next  spring. 


PROSIT:  A  Book  of  Toasts 


Compiled  by  Clotho  for  the 
Spinners'  Club  of  San  Francisco 

Composed  of  bibulous  lyrics  and  out- 
bursts of  Omarism  from  California,  the 
land  of  the  vine,  and  other  genial 
sources.  The  contributors  range  all 
the  way  from  Will  Irwin  down  to  Will 
Shakespeare,  from  Anacreon  up  to 
Gelett  Burgess. 

A  book  full  of  the  spirit  of  the  vine, 
touching  all  chords  from  wisdom  to 
frivolity,  poetry  and  sentiment  to  non- 
sense and  satire,  while  many  of  the 
toasts  are  even  a  bit  wicked. 

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A  Frontispiece  by  Gordon  Ross 

Here's  to  the  stein :   '^  'Tis  not  so  wide  as  a 

church  door  nor  so  deep  as  a  well, 

but  *  twill  serve  !  '* 


SOVEREIGN  WOMAN  VERSUS 
MERE  MAN 

A  Medley  of  Pertinent  Quotations.    By  Jennie  Day  Haines 

The  evidence  is  not  as  one-sided  as  the  title  may  suggest.     Clever 
and  famous  writers  are  freely  quoted  without  favor  or  prejudice :  Marie 

Corelli,  Zangwill,  Hobbes,  Emerson,  Holmes, 
Voltaire,  Disraeli  and  an  abundance  of  others. 
A  separate  case  is  tried  upon  *each  double  page. 
Spinsters,  wives,  widows  and  queens  are  ar- 
rayed against  bachelors,  husbands,  widowers 
and  kings,  and  even  cooks  and  poets  are  heard 
from. 

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THl  FV/m-riSH  HAS  QMH  VfmS, 
AND  W//FV  HIS-  FOE  HE  SPIZS 

HE  jyt^s  mHT  o\n  or  vjater  qi/ick, 

JI/ST  SFRZAOS  HIS  VflNC^S,  m  OlfS. 


WONDERS  OF  THE  DEEP 

An  Invaluable  Aid  to  Young  Naturalists.     By  Johnny  Jones 

A  naive  treatise  on  various  finny 
folk  and  other  denizens  of  the  deep. 
Truthfully  described  in  rhyme  and 
completely  illustrated.  Some  thirty 
creatures  are  subjeded  to  a  keen 
analysis  by  the  youthful  poet  and 
nature  student. 

Wonders  of  the  Deep  lacks 
none  of  the  cleverness  and  humor 
of  its  predecessor,  the  Book  of  Na- 
ture ;  moreover,  there  is  something 
of  an  eerie  charm  about  the  book,  a 
touch  of  deep-sea  mystery,  that  is 
delightful. 

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BOOK  OF  NATURE 

Faithful  Sketches  in  Black  and  White  with  Impressions  in 
Rhyme.    By  Johnny  Jones.    Spelling  by  his  Mother. 

A  most  important  work  on  land 
zoology.  An  indispensable  addi- 
tion to  every  child's  library. 

Mosquitoes  drive  you  almost  mad^ 

They  come  around  at  night ; 
When  you  re  not  asleep  they  buzz^ 

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A  lively  member  of  the  finny  tribe  sketched 
from  life  by  Johnny  Jones 


THl  THIN(rS  T  HAT£  tHl  MOST  OF  All- 

TO    HAVE.  AROUNp,  ARC  FUAS, 

THEY  JVMP  m  CI^WL  ALL  CVEK  W. 

m  Bm  yov  wwe/er  the/  puasc. 


THE  REMARKABLE  ADVENTURES  OF 

LITTLE  BOY  PIP 

A  Fascinating  Story  for  Children 

of  all  Ages 

By  Philip  W.  Francis 

Relating  the  hazardous  journey  ot 
a  Httle  lad  over  the  meadow  to  the 
Place  Where  the  Sky  Comes  Down 
and  of  his  subsequent  amazing  adven- 
tures in  the  Enchanted  Swamp  upon 
an  excursion  personally  conducted  by 
our  mutual  friend  the  Welsh  Rabbit. 

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One  lively  situation  succeeds  another 
quaint  charaders  are  introduced. 


Cover  Design  by  Merle  Johnson 

OfF  to  the  Enchanted  Swamp  on  the  back  of 

the  Welsh  Rabbit 


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TAKEN  FROM  GAIETY  BOOKS 
LISTED  ON  PRECEDING  PAGES 

United  we  stand  it,  divided  we  remarry. 

How  far  that  little  scandal  throws  its  beams  !     So 
shines  a  bad  deed  in  the  daily  press. 

Peace  that  passeth  all  understanding. —  The  Hague 
Conference, 

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From  The  Quite  New  Cynic's 
Calendar  for  1908. 


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woman  will. 

From  The  Matrimonial  Primer 


Tarry  when  chased  ;  ye  may  repent  at  seizure. 

Though  thou  swear  by  thine  auto  seven  times,  the 
eighth  thou  wilt  swear  at  it ;  that  is  Kismet. 

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Original  printed  in  gold,  red  and  black  upon  a  folder 

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